1. MODERNISMEMODERNISME

2. Modernisme
• Barcelona, Catalonia late 19th c. And early 20th c.
• Architectural style, which also involves other arts (painting
and sculpture), and especially the design and decorative arts
• Part of a general trend that emerges in Europe (known in
each country as modernism, art nouveau, etc.)
• Modernisme is basically derived from the English Arts and
Crafts movement and the Gothic revival

3. Modernisme
Predominance of the
curve and the dynamic
shapes over the
straight line

4. Modernisme
Rich decoration
and detail

5. Modernisme
Frequent use of
vegetal and other
organic motifs

7. Modernisme
Asymmetry

8. Modernisme
Use of “industrial” materials, like iron forgery, ceramics and
stained glass

10. • In the context of a spectacular urban and industrial
development
• It is a style for the Catalan industrial bourgeoisie, whoIt is a style for the Catalan industrial bourgeoisie, who
built industrial buildings and summer residencesbuilt industrial buildings and summer residences
(families like the(families like the GüellGüell,, BatllóBatlló oror MiláMilá)
Modernisme

11. • His big passions in life: architecture, nature, religion.
an organic style inspired by nature
He rarely drew detailed plans of his works, instead
preferring to create them as three-dimensional scale
models and molding the details as he was conceiving
them.
Antoni Gaudí

12. Gaudí's first work was a
set of lampposts for
the Plaça Reial in
Barcelona
Antoni GaudíAntoni Gaudí

13. • First years under the influence of neo-Gothic art and
Oriental styles

17. Orientalist works

22. His relationship with Eusebi Güell
• Güell was a wealthy industrialist and
entrepeneur
• He was so impressed with his first
works that he wanted to meet Gaudí
• They became friends and Güell
became Gaudí's main patron and
sponsor

23. Naturalist period
• He perfected his personal style, inspired by the
organic shapes of nature.
• New structural solutions
• Shapes and volumes devoid of rational rigidity or any
classic premise

24. Casa Calvert

25. Porta Miralles

26. Güell Park

27. Güell Park
Originally part of a commercially unsuccessful housing site
The focal point of the park is the main terrace, surrounded
by a long bench in the form of a sea serpent.

28. Güell Park
To design the curvature of the bench surface Gaudí used the
shape of buttocks left by a naked workman sitting in wet clay

29. Güell Park
New techniques in the treatment of materials,
Trencadís, made of waste ceramic pieces

31. Curvy shapes and natural
materials

33. The light
• MediterraneanMediterranean
• GodGod
• NatureNature
• ReligionReligion

35. Nature & Geometry

40. CASA BATLLÓ

47. CASA MILÁ
LA PEDRERA

54. Furniture

57. La Sagrada Familia
From 1915 Gaudí devoted himself almost exclusively to his most ambitious
building, the Sagrada Família, a synthesis of his architectural evolution

58. The workshop today

60. TEMPLE WORK BEGAN IN 1882TEMPLE WORK BEGAN IN 1882

61. Destruction of Gaudí
study workshop during
the civil war (1936)
burning Gaudí plans and
drawings.

62. The discovery in the municipal
archives of the sketches signed by
Gaudí, has allowed to know the
heights of the towers and most of the
details

65. • It has a cruciform plan, with a five-aisled nave, a transept of
three aisles, and an apse with seven chapels
• It has three facades dedicated to the birth, passion and
glory of Jesus

66. Façade of the Birth

68. ONE OF THE INNOVATIVE DESIGN IDEAS WAS THE HEIGHT OF THE TOWERS AT THE FRONT
PARABOLIC WITH A TENDENCY TO SPIRAL UPWARD AND PIERCED WITH MANY WINDOWS

70. Nativity Facade

73. At the base of the spine turtle (land and sea) as
a symbol of time is unchanged Sculpture of st. Barnabe in its current location in
naixement façana

74. THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY FAMILY MONUMENT - MUSEUM MOST VISITED SPAIN

76. INTERIOR OF A TOWER

77. HE DESCRIBES HIS VIEW OF THE FACADE OF THE PASSION OF GAUDÍ AS FOLLOWS:
SOMEONE WILL FIND THE DOOR TOO EXTRAVAGANT, BUT I LIKE TO SEE YOUR FEAR, AND TO GET
SPARE NO CHIAROSCURO, EVERYTHING SHOULD BE AS BLEAK . ALSO, I'M WILLING TO SACRIFICE
THE SAME BUILDING, THE IDEA OF A BLOOD SACRIFICE​​ .

79. THE FRONT DOOR OF THE GLORY SUBIRACHS
WORKS. THE PRAYER OF THE “PARE NOSTRE"
CENTRAL DOOR LEFT

80. Interior

99. Sculptural cycle of passion is installed on three levels, in ascending order s-
shaped to play the calvary of Jesus

118. SCULPTURAL FORM THAT SYMBOLIZES THE MOUNTAIN OF MONTSERRAT - CAVALL BERNAT

125. TOMB OF ANTONI GAUDÍ, LOCATED IN THE CRYPT OF THE HOLY FAMILY